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Gryphon Unveils Compliance and Productivity Solution to Be Used in Conjunction with Predictive Dialers

Gryphon, a provider of contact governance and compliance solutions to help improve sales performance and minimize enterprise risk and liability, recently has unveiled its Core Phone (News - Alert), which gives enterprises the ability to scale from the largest contact center, predictive dialer sales operations to branch offices, home offices, and even cell phones.

While most large companies are familiar with sales activity management tools that improve contact center productivity and ensure compliance, there has been no practical way for them to incorporate employees who work outside the contact center without increasing their IT costs and administration.

However, Core Phone addresses these compliance issues by powering a robust enterprise-level Do-Not-Call (DNC) compliance and sales performance solution for sales and marketing organizations that combines Gryphon's Call Advisor toll-free service with the true "pick-up-the-phone" TeleBlock service capabilities acquired in 2010. This real-time, network-delivered service certifies all predictive dialer calls for compliance with federal, state, and industry-specific DNC laws and restrictions.

Another function of the Core Phone is that the predictive dialer service is built into the telecommunications carrier network. The network-based deployment allows for a carrier-grade, highly available and reliable environment that doesn't require any network adjustments or user input.

This solution delivers "any phone, anywhere" access to enterprises. Subscribers can enjoy enhanced activity reports so that companies can accurately measure marketing effectiveness and interpret the data collected, then using it to make decisions to improve business operations.

Additionally, the Core Phone improves enterprise sales productivity by minimizing DNC blocks and encouraging calling based on each consumer's preferences.

In another related development, Ytel, a provider of cloud-based telephony and predictive dialer solutions, recently launched a variety of new hosted solutions and training services for businesses of any size.

The company offers a comprehensive range of services including enterprise call center, predictive dialer, SIP trunking, voice broadcasting, white label, and IVR testing and delivers these solutions through its own private network, ensuring the best sound quality, fastest connection speeds and an extremely reliable network.

What Are Related Definitions You Should Know?

Related definitions that you should know as you increase your understanding of predictive dialers include:

Dialer: generic term for any computer-driven device that places outbound calls and connects the answered calls to an agent or operator.

Agent: telephone professional to whom a predictive dialer sends the ready call.

Predictive Dialer: Predictive dialing was introduced for the purpose of increasing efficiency within calling centers. They are computer based system that automatically dial groups of telephone numbers, and then passes live calls to available agents. The SpitFire Enterprise dialer utilizes sophisticated algorithms to speed up and slow down the call rate based on, number of available agents, number of available lines, the campaign’s average call time and other statistical information.

Quick Connect: Quick Connect allows your agents to log in one-to-one with a phone line. This option is great for B2B purposes, especially when your agent needs to be on the phone line through the entire call.

Fixed Dialing: Fixed Dialing gives your call center manager the power to manually set the volume of calls. The software will then automatically dial a predetermined number of lines per agent. Fixed dialing is ideal for political campaigns, charity campaigns, and other situations drop call ratios are not a factor.

SpitFire Enterprise Predictive SEP is a fully blended call center solution that supports unlimited lines, agents, and campaigns. Its greatest strength is in its flexibility: multiple campaigns can be set up, viewed, and changed with the click of a button. With easy options for customization, data and dispositions can be catered to each campaign. In addition to our user-friendly interface, SEPhighlights full customer data and combines multiple campaigns on one screen. All the information your agents need is accessible at a glance, freeing their energy to focus on what matters: the calls.

Keep It Simple with SpitFire Fully Integrated Call Center Software

Our greatest priority is making your call center run smoothly, and we do that by developing software that is intuitive and easily integrated with your current systems. SEP works seamlessly with most CRM applications and long distance carriers, making it the simplest and most cost-effective solution for your call center.

Benefits of Using a Predictive Dialer

Manages the process of dialing tens of thousands of calls or tens of millions of calls in its lifetime.

Detects the result of the call, as an example: no answer, busy, fax, bad number, answering machine without any presence of human expertise. Consequently saving time by only transferring calls which are voice connects to the agents locally or remotely.

Using predictive dialer increases the productivity of the company by drastically increasing the time agents spend on the phone talking to actual customers or prospective clients.

Predictive dialer users get the ability to organize and better manage the client information, no lost notes scribbled on pieces of paper. The database used by the dialer organizes the calling structure.

The most significant task done by the predictive dialer is to predict, which means always making an effort to get a live call to the available agent with the shortest amount of wait time. This is achieved by self learning algorithms within the predictive dialer to increase or decrease the dial ratio per agent, logged into the system.

Inbound call can be better dealt with by allowing the customers to wait on hold in an IVR system, or a way to leave a message they'd like a callback while the agent is busy talking with other customers.

Most important benefit of a predictive dialer is it reduces expenses for your company over a period of time since you do not need to buy and deploy a complex and sometimes extremely expensive PBX system. Your company will experience return of investment (ROI) in a period of six to twelve months.

A predictive dialing system can effortlessly fit into your companies existing infrastructure since it is software controlled.

The call routing logic and the contact management is all included in one software package. Your call routing logic implemented as per your specifications. Since it is a software package it can easily be upgraded even if you are located remotely with the help of internet.

Provides an added cost effective method of managing the client database by giving the user of the predictive system ability to rework your database on previous call results.

Example:

only redial records which were busy, no answers and answering machines

Do a real time look up against the do not call database saving the predictive dialer user from accidentally calling people who have enrolled in the do National not call registry. This saves the company from lawsuits and others risks conforming to all legal statutes and FCC complaints.